@ashleykampta.com
(he/him) AuDHD. Composer for games by @asatiir.bsky.social. Also open to work, collabs and commissions! For commissions, go to https://ashleykampta.carrd.co Listen to my music on SoundCloud here: https://soundcloud.com/ashley-kampta
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The first public demo of Treeplanter is available right now on Steam ahead of Next Fest
An interactive woodland toybox launching this Spring 🐝
Piece together a tiny grove and watch as birds, plants and animals move in over the changing seasons 🌸☀️🍂❄️
There's a name I haven't heard for a while! It's inspirational to see that Mr Motivator's still going strong after all these years. My exercise tolerance is probably only half of what his is, even though he must be in his 70s by now...
Working on a new track called Easy Days, a Bossa Nova-inspired piece for my Visual Novel music pack.
Still a work in progress, but I like where it’s heading.
People like Myron Golden, Layla at ProcessDriven, and Tim Ferriss have helped me understand that business is about experimenting to find out what works. It’s literally try, fail, try, fail, try, fail, until something finally works. Always be ready to fail fast and try something new.
A lot of business stuff is common sense, tbh. Ask questions, find out people’s needs, and create something that fills that need or otherwise solves a problem those people have. You can get a lot of education from YouTube for free!
Speaking for myself, teaching is the only stable income source I have. There are (and will always be) people who either need or want (for themselves or those in their care) to be educated. However I do agree that a lot of course sales and marketing tactics are disingenuous and prey on people’s hopes
I just bought Eventide Articulate, and I LOVE IT. I'd love to use this on some sound design stuff if I can get my hands on a sound effect library!
I have my own creative struggles too, so you’re not alone - and we all need to support each other as we grow artistically.
The first time you do something will always take the longest - once you have a template to work from, things will go much quicker! I’ll follow you on Twitch and hopefully I’ll be able to hang out on some of your streams!
This looks so good! How long does something like this take to draw, rig and animate?
YouTube Music here, as I have YouTube Premium.
Art is as much for you as it is for others. If you need to create for others, do so. If you need to get something out of your head for your eyes/ears only, that is just as valid. Art can be healing and therapy too. Sometimes you need to ignore the world and retreat to externally process through art.
I still use one sometimes! 😆 I use Firefox (actually Librewolf) and I have a download manager for it called DownThemAll - it’s a nice dose of time travel back to that era when I need to bulk download stuff!
If you're over 30, quote this with some life advice
Your family and friends may not understand what you are doing and why. Listen to advice, and acknowledge what is said - but you are free to disagree and to choose not to follow it, even if you have to disagree in private. Blaze your own trail.
RealPlayer and the DivX codec made SO much anime-watching possible for me in the late 90s and early 2000s. Having to leave download managers open at least overnight and sometimes even for several days just to watch a pixelated anime episode was still an incredible experience for the time!
It’s also worth noting that in the Great Recession in 2007-8, one academic paper I read states that “entertainment spending often does not decrease much during economic recessions”. People need art and music to keep themselves going and maintain stronger mental health during darker times.
I watched a video on this very topic a few days ago. I hope it helps you as much as it helped me to realise that even though I sometimes don’t see the point of creating when the world seems to suck most, art is actually needed more than ever when things are (or even just seem) bleak.
Welp, time to move to Reelcrafter! I’d been putting it off, but now’s as good a time as any!
I just found out that I got my first sale on Bandcamp last month. I almost can’t believe it. Someone discovered my music, and was more generous than I expected. I am grateful.
Indeed. I've heard and read from other streamers that having "Follower Only Chat" enabled is a quick way to kill your stream's growth. I get that it can sometimes protect against AI bot-spam, but it's a double-edged sword and, in my opinion, I don't think it should be used as a default preference.
Technical Audio Designer at www.gameloft.com (Montreal, 🇨🇦) "responsible for the integration of sound effects, music and dialogue in our games" www.gameloft.com/jobs/Concept... #gamejobs
There are many artists with simpler styles who are creatively blocked and can’t finish anything - but you, even with a more complex style, have shipped artwork for a finished game. If complex works for you and you can finish things, then you do you! No need to be envious. Speed isn’t everything!
Yeah, I think this is mainly a concern for producers etc. who use longer samples. I doubt the problem would exist for one-shots. Anyway, one recent video I saw on the topic related to getting DMCA’d after a livestream. Might not be relevant to your use case!
Looking forward to seeing where things go today!
That’s encouraging, but I’ve also heard stories of people getting copyright-struck from Splice samples used on their music. At any rate, I wish you pain-free music-making, both legally and physically!
A picture of Dubrovnik’s coast, with rows of trees among hotel buildings lining a slope to the coast on the left, and the sea on the right. There is grass in the foreground with small bushes lining the walkway, which is shown in the bottom left corner.
Dubrovnik is beautiful, and having these couple of days to decompress was sorely needed.
On the plane to Dubrovnik for Reboot! Hope to see you there if you’re going too!
The image is of a screenshot of the REAPER audio software, with tracks on the left hand side, and MIDI data on the right. The screenshot shows a template with over 100 tracks of orchestral instruments that I am building for future projects, as well as my own music.
I haven't been on here much lately, but that's because I've been busy making an orchestral template for my own music and for the next project with Asatiir's Tales, and oh my days, orchestral templates take FOREVER to make, and I've spent so much time doing stuff as exciting as watching paint dry! 😮💨
A yellowed, rotten cucumber sits on my kitchen counter, still in its plastic wrap, having been forgotten about for a whole two months after a shopping trip I made in December. Pray for me and my ADHD.
This is what happens to a cucumber when you go on a shopping trip in December, and proceed to forget about said cucumber in your rucksack for two months. Thanks, ADHD! 🫠 (Thankfully, the plastic wrap protected the rest of my bag's contents from succumbing to a watery grave.)
